Characteristics:

Regardless of style or purpose, it contains a multitude of details to build a strong imagePerson, Place, Object, Event description is based on writer's physical & psychological POV. Ex: Writer describes a street from a balcony or street level / Writer describes a lobster trap in a different perspective to a tourist than a fisher would.
Observations are organized in a particular manner
              + General Observations of whole scene to a more specific observation of its parts
              + Spatially - Right to left, Top to bottom, End to End,
              + Chronologically - Beginning to end, Dawn to Dusk,
              + Sensory - According to the senses

	Created by Kai Ladd over 10 years ago

High School - Grade 12 English 30-1 (Writing) Note on Descriptive Writing, created by Kai Ladd on 25/07/2014.